Mycenæ: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenæ and TirynsC. Scribner's Sons, 1880 - 404 من الصفحات The author connects the items discovered from his excavations of Mycenæ and Tiryns with the Homeric Poems. |
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Acropolis Actual Ægisthus Agamemnon Agora alabaster ancient antiquity appears archaic Argives Argolid Argos bands beads beautiful body bones border broad bronze swords chariot circular citadel Clytemnestra colour copper vessels covered cow-head curious Cyclopean house Cyclopean walls débris diadems double doubt Egyptian engraving epithet Euboea Euripides excavations fastened feet four fragments funeral further found Gate goblet gold buttons gold plate golden ornaments Greece Greek hand-made handle head Hera Hera-idols Hissarlik Homer horizontal horns Ialysus Iliad intaglio lentoid gem Lions lower mask metal Mycena Mycenean objects found orna passage Pausanias perforations piece plated with gold plates of gold pottery prehistoric probably protruding quadrangular remains repoussé represented resembles rock round royal Schliemann sculptured seems Sepulchre Sepulchre IV side silver vase slabs Spata spiral ornamentation stones terra-cotta thick Thyestes Tiryns tombstones Treasury of Atreus Troy upper vertical wheel-made wood wooden δὲ καὶ
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الصفحة 338 - But the townsmen all assembled In the forum thronging stood ; For a strife of twain had risen, Suing on a fine of blood. All was paid, the first protested, Pleading well to move the crowd ; Nought was had, upheld the second ; Each to obey an umpire vowed ; And the hearers, as they sided This or that way, cheered aloud. And the heralds ordered silence ; And, on chairs of polished stone, Ranged in venerable circle Sate the Elders. One by one Each the clear-toned herald's sceptre Took, and standing...
الصفحة 296 - But of the third body, which lay at the north end of the tomb, the round face, with all its flesh, had been wonderfully preserved under its ponderous golden mask ; there was no vestige of hair, but both eyes were perfectly visible, also the mouth, which, owing to the enormous weight that had pressed upon it, was wide open, and showed thirty-two beautiful teeth. From these, all the physicians who came to see the body were led to believe that the man must have died at the early age of thirty-five.
الصفحة 177 - As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold...
الصفحة 13 - The goddess Isis, mated with Osiris, is represented with the cow's head on some of the Egyptian monuments.* She is identified by Herodotus with Demeter : but Demeter and Here are very near, and Here seems in Homer to be the Hellenic form which had in a great degree extruded Demeter from many of her traditions, and relegated her into the insignificance which belongs to her in the poems. The epithet Boopis seems therefore possibly to indicate a mode of representing Here which had been derived from...
الصفحة 198 - Must be contented with the second place. But when the fourth time in their rapid course The founts were reach'd, th' Eternal Father hung His golden scales aloft, and plac'd in each The lots of doom, for great Achilles one, For Hector one, and held them by the midst: Down sank the scale, weighted with Hector's death, Down to the shades, and Phoebus left his side. Then to Pelides came the blue-ey'd Maid, And stood beside him, and bespoke him thus...
الصفحة 36 - ... polygons, although the rough construction is occasionally seen. It is not fortified with towers. On the northern side is a small gate, with its lintel still entire. The structure is so disposed that those who entered it would have their left arm, which was guarded by the shield, on the side of the acropolis, which is a deviation from the common rule.
الصفحة 203 - It will, of course, for ever remain a secret to us whether this amber is derived from the coast of the Baltic or from Italy, where it is found in several places, but particularly on the east coast of Sicily.
الصفحة 13 - ... in a great degree extruded Demeter from many of her traditions, and relegated her into the insignificance which belongs to her in the poems. The epithet Boopis seems therefore possibly to indicate a mode of representing Here which had been derived from Egypt and which Hellenism refined. It must, however, be borne in mind that the Egyptian representation was not with the eyes but with the full countenance and head of the ox or cow, and further that the Homeric epithet is not confined to Here but...
الصفحة 125 - The dithyramb was originally of the nature of a /iof : it was sung by a band ol revellers to a flute accompaniment ; and in the time of Archilochus had its leader, for that poet says that " he knows how to lead off the dithyramb, the beautiful song of Dionysus, when his mind is inflamed with wine :"